The paper presents 279 small and medium-sized private companies operating in the Czech Republic, ana-lyzed by a questionnaire on implementing the elements of integral management. Elements of integral man-agement are defined in terms of threefold management (TM) and the social organic theory. The survey wascompleted in February 2020, examining the situation before the social restrictions caused by the Covid-19pandemic. The research results are quantitatively based on the threefold management index (TMI) for pri-vate companies. Results show the three components (sectors) of organizational management — (circular)economics, legality, and culture. The authors examined the relationship of TM number of employees infirms and the relationship of the number of employees to the business relative to TM using variance (ANO-VA). The research presents direct results that reflect the state before the economic changes caused by Covid-19.